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If you don’t already know how to add a Custom Search Box on your Blog or Website you will probably find this helpful information.
Google makes it easier to get a search box on your site.
Author: Jonathan Celeste
Google have recently made it easier for webmasters to incorporate ‘custom search engines’ into their own websites.
Custom search engines essentially enable you to have a Google search box on your website, from which users can search for the information they want from your site or from across the whole web.
Now Google have made it possible to create and manage a custom search engine for your site from within Google tools. All you need to do is:
- Log in to Google Webmaster Tools with your Google account. If you don’t already have an account you’ll need to create one.
- Click on the ‘Labs’ tab, then on ‘Custom Search’
- Select from the standard edition (with ads) or the premium site search (which costs an annual amount but does not feature ads).
- If you already use Webmaster Tools with your website, all the necessary details should be filled in automatically. You can choose whether you want to give visitors the ability to search only your site(s) or the entire web.
- Click ‘save and get code’, then simply paste the resulting code into whatever page or pages of your website you’d like the search box to appear on.
- That’s it.
The benefits of having a custom search engine on your site
Giving your visitors the ability to search your website has numerous benefits for them and for you. If you’ve got a lot of content and pages on your site, search can enhance its usability and create a better user experience for the visitor.
People may arrive at your site via a specific search on Google, and it may be that they enjoy your content on the subject they were looking for and find it useful. Once they’ve gleamed as much as they can from that content, they may wish to make a follow up search on a related topic. If you don’t have a means for them to search your site, they will probably hit the back button and perform another search on Google, potentially taking them to any other site on the web.
But if you have your own search box on your site, there is a good chance that, following their initial favourable impression of your content, they’ll want to see what else you have to say, prompting them to search your site. You may even become their ‘go to’ site for information related to your niche. This time it seems that Google has come up with something that will actually help website owners to retain visitors and engage with them in a much more proactive way.
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About the Author
Jonathan Celeste invites you to join the rest of his clients at the top of the Google mountain with a Search Engine Optimization campaign from Onit solutions.
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